dmgbrn

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by dmgbrn 11y ago
This, absolutely. Communities can be healthy without a CoC, or unhealthy with one. But having a CoC sends a big, clear message to women and other groups frequently marginalized in the tech scene that your project is healthy and welcoming.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I'm not sure why you are so vehement in attacking AA. Members (such as myself) who have access to other forms of treatment (medication, therapy, and sober housing) use them. What AA gives me is a powerful source of support. Let me o
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
This article attacks a straw man AA. I could go on, but suffice to say, if what you know about recovery consists entirely of this article, you don't know much.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Just a suggestion, but if you ended up with a caffeine problem, you're very likely to end up with a Ritalin problem. I don't know exactly what the laws are like where you live, but running out of Ritalin is a much harder problem
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
In the recovery community we call this state of being "dry", as in "dry drunk". The concept is that while she's managed to stop taking the pills, she hasn't addressed the underlying problems. It's especia
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
As a recovering alcoholic, I can confidently say that this is not correct. Although many alcoholics get in trouble by drinking too much too fast (this seems like an acceptable definition of binge drinking that takes tolerance into account)
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
> Machine: to find out what happens when we get to the planet earth . Something tells me the entirety of BSG was included in the training set.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
It's kind of cute how the technical report[1] goes to great lengths to finger Israel, without explicitly stating it (see page 43). [1] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Ah, the seventeenth century. A fuckfest before the word existed.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I have to disagree with you on this. A language should be expressive enough that it can easily support correct concurrent programming, and readily expose runtimes (OTP is a great example) that have support for concurrency and distributed pr
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
This is all true, and it's wonderful! I fired my previous employer for unethical behavior. They told me to settle down and act my age, so I responded with my two weeks notice, at which point the asked me to leave immediately. The foll
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I'm curious as to why? It sounds like an exciting experiment! Incidentally, when the startup I work for reached a size where most companies would have started hiring managers, we reached a consensus as a company to give the holocracy
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I think Freaks and Geeks made this argument pretty conclusively. It'd be interesting to see what happened to Lindsey after she joined the Dead Tour.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
+1 for visible borders. How about power ups of some kind? Maybe a speed burst that shrinks you, for example?
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
AIDS deniers are pretty sensational if you ask me.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I found their functional programming series to be a good way to get acquainted with Haskell -- problems start with basic operations, move on to recursion, lists, other data structures, and so on. As early as the recursion section we see so
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Sigh, another cool looking language I'll never be able to use at work.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Unless you're on your personal laptop. It's a tricky question, one that we've spent a lot of time thinking about at my company (Conjur -- shameless plug, one of our use cases is secrets management). Obviously doing this on a
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Yeah, that's why I emphasized letting them talk about their lives. But...there will always be those out of touch "why don't you just do x and then y and then have a house??" people.
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
This is so true. I meet a lot of homeless people through addiction recovery programs I'm part of, and there are as many reasons to be homeless as there are homeless people. If you want to improve your understanding of homelessness wit
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
That grammar tho! This guy seems like a native speaker, do CFOs actually use "its" instead of "it's" and "your" instead of "you're"? That said, all of this business cat stuff is way over my
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
I lived with some guys who had a TV that would mute automatically during commercials. This was about 5 years ago, but I think the TV was older than that (it wasn't a flat screen). I assume it took advantage of the fact that commercial
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Yes and no. Ruby has Fibers, but they're roughly where Python is with generators as coroutines. They're wonderful when working with EM, and one time I wrote a massively overengineered Ruby Warrior program that allowed you to do
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
MongoDB has just done so much to erode my trust in novel databases. My knee jerk reaction is always "NOPE stickin with Postgres!". So I'm going to hold off on checking this one out, even though it seems from the comments th
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Learning how to perceive emotional states in greater detail/resolution both in quality and in change over time is a big one. So is being able to observe their effect on your behavior and if possible to intervene and do something health
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
While the "tell them to subpoena you" answer is obviously more correct than the "do the authentic thing" one, I want to point out that by making certain sacrifices (you probably shouldn't make any babies if you&#x27
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
The bad news is that if you get your dream job and meet the love of your life tomorrow you're still going to feel like this. The good news is that if you change yourself, your perspective, your thinking, and so forth, you'll be ha
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by dmgbrn 11y ago
Hey let's actually do something about this: go to the play store and leave a 1 star review saying something like "this app doesn't encrypt anything, <non-technical explanation>". https://play.google.com&
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by dmgbrn 13y ago
I think OP's motivation may involve http://xkcd.com/853 .
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by dmgbrn 13y ago
In a subset of people pot induces paranoia, negative feelings, and anxiety rather than the usual good stuff. As a member of this subset, and I don't touch the stuff. My experiences with mushrooms (and a host of other drugs) have, howev

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